Just a quick entry as I don't have a lot to say really. Had to go into Hamilton yesterday and today. In my job I cover all GP practices from... well lets just say over a big area. I have visited almost all of them now but left some Maori ones to last. That wasn't racist, deliberate or anything, just the way it worked out. Well what a mistake. Things are so badly managed re vaccine storage etc that I really should have visited these ones first. I am having to do so much work with them. I almost feel like I want a job as their chief nurse so I can go in and get them organised - on all fronts. Anyway...
The calves are proving a nightmare (did I really expect anything else?!). We would not let the girls do calf club last year as they did not perform properly the year before ie do the training grooming etc that is required. We said Yes this year after all the pleading and reassurances that they would do it all this time, and we figured being 2 years older they might. Well the arguments that have been caused are driving us mad. Harriette would just not feed them on occassions if it was left to her and this morning they were woken at 6.25am and by 7.15am they were still faffing around mixing milk(they have to leave for the bus at 7.40am!). It's always the other persons fault that something isn't done - you get the picture. I must say Alice is showing more application than Harriette.
Yesterday afternoon when they were down there (by 'there' I mean in the barn where the calves are which sits across the drive and on the paddock which is much lower than the house) when Alice started bellowing 'Mom, Mom'. Convinced that another row was in progress I stormed out to be told that Saddle (Alice's original steer) and Lance (school steer) were in Claire and Ian's paddock next door. They had broken through/over some rotten fencing. I must say I actually enjoyed strolling around rounding them up. The sun was shining but we had a cool wind blowing. (Today we had sun with no wind.) I effected some temporary repair to the fence (actually I pulled an old gate across and propped a large fallen tree bough in fromt of it. Eric can do the serious stuff at the w/e.
Alice's is on her knees with tiredness this evening so has gone to bed early. The dogs came into the house (for a change) this evening and Rust mauled Dog. No flesh wounds but he was left smelling not like something Alice wanted to cuddle up to in bed. She therefore washed him (sensible) at about 5pm and burst into tears when at 7.30pm she was told he wouldn't be sleeping with her tonight (we have no tumble drier). Hysterical tears = a tired little girl= early night in my eyes. They had forfeited their 30mins Olympic TV watching tonight after this mornings carry anyway.
Well I warned you I didn't have much to write and this has deteriorated into trivial waffle so I'll save you any more of it and finish now. Am getting more into my book a Kathy Reichs - Fatal Voyage. Night night.
PS Harriette said she'd write but I don't think she has. Might be worth checking in a day or 2 though!
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